Heavy Rain is an experience.

*This blog may or may not contain SPOILERS, I am posting this as a warning*

As the title suggest and for those who already know from reading my past blog posts, I am currently travelling through the world of Heavy Rain. I am almost at the half way point of the game, as other commitments have slowed down my progress. But as always this is about the time I come on and post my on-going thoughts of the game itself.

I have never experienced a game like Heavy Rain before, the control scheme that it introduces could be argued as just a series of quick time events (which it kinda is) but the way in which they are executed, put you on the edge of your seat. For those who don't know by now, Heavy Rain has you playing out a cinematic experience, one that could be a movie. To interact with the game you must press, hold and twirl the analog sticks and buttons as the game tells in in button prompts on screen. You can fail at these and it will most of the time allow you to try again to correct your mistake, but in some cases it changes the way the scene will play out drastically.

You play as 4 seperate characters and play out their simultaneous stories on screen, one character is a Private Investigator named Scott Shelby. I had seen videos of one of his scenes in the game where you are inside a convenient store late at night and the clerk is held up and of course, you must save the day. The video I saw played out drastically different to what I experience and I loved it! I knew it was all going to happen but not in the way I experience it...The thrill ride was great. I was making my way slowly to the robber and grabbed an alcoholic beverage (Hopefully to try and charm the man into a few drinks rather then murder) and stopped a box of cereal from falling, but as I went to put it back I moved too fast and made a noise which made my presence in the store known. I then had to try and talk my way through the situation to save us both...What a great edge of your seat moment, in videos I had seen a fight to progress through, but here it was a complete 180 because, well I made a mistake, but the unique experience was very cool.

Another scene had me awake as new character named Madison Paige, after having a shower (Seeing some very realistic polygonned breasts) then discovering your place had been broken into by about 4 armed robbers. This scene was frenetic, I could feel my blood rushing and my heart pounding through this scene, due to the interactivity of the game you felt as if you were inside this scene and you were trying to escape. The end of this scene is breathtaking and it felt like an ultimate pay off to allow myself to calm down, as my heart finally slowed down from the adrenaline rush it has just been put through.

Well I could go on longer, but I need to save some for the review. There are so many facets of this game I have not touched yet, including 2 other characters, the story and the continuation of the interactive game play. I may do another update in a few days or go straight into the review, depending on how long it will take for my new place to get Internet.